Amelia Earhart

"By the time anyone could get to the beach, it would take a good 10 minutes," he said. Gillespie credited Lambrecht for pinpointing the signs of habitation but chided the Navy for failing to take a closer look at the island. "The Navy really blew the whole search for Earhart," he said.

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"Grif" Cook of nearby Pokagon. An addendum may be necessary, should Gillespie succeed in unlocking one of the 20th century's greatest mysteries. "He was apparently one of several people who found Amelia Earhart and didn't know it," Gillespie said.

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"Bill" Stultz and Louis "Slim" Gordon, with Amelia as passenger - had no idea where they were and assumed it was Ireland. "They opened the door in the side of the aeroplane and peered out through thin veils of rain," says Mary Lovell in The Sound of Wings, a biography of Earhart which has been reprinted to cope with demand for information on her life thanks to the new film.

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Swank, who also stars alongside Ewan McGregor in the new film, says: "Amelia Earhart is one of those women that I learnt about at a really young age.

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Mira Nair directs as if she were piloting an overloaded plane on an endless runway - the film lumbers along interminably, never achieving takeoff..." and "As the film limps to a close, Amelia has accomplished a feat we didn't think possible: it has made us indifferent to this real-life heroine's tragic fate.". Most critics decried the inconsistencies and lack of focus in the film; Manohla Dargis of the New York Times wrote, "The actors don't make a persuasive fit, despite all their long stares and infernal smiling. ...the movie is a more effective testament to the triumphs of American dentistry than to Earhart or aviation."

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Amelia Earhart was quoted as saying "Zanesville is the easiest recognized city from the air because of the Y- Bridge. "

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Ms. Nair recreates the simple ceremony - like many biopic directors, she dutifully spins all the greatest hits - and shares Earhart's remarkable prenuptial letter to G. P. "I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly," Earhart wrote. "Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play. "

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On the eve of her wedding to Putnam she wrote: "Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play… I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all the confinements of even an attractive cage. " And: "I must exact a cruel promise and that is, you will let me go in a year if we find no happiness together. "

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I echo Amelia Earhart's saying "The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."

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Unfortunately, the script (by Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan) flounders through the events of her life story, stopping off at a few celebrity encounters or flatly told episodes of derring-do and throwing in exchanges that are meant to set us up for the alleged drama to follow: ("I'm going to fly around the world, George," Earhart says. "It can't be done,"

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